Steering Committee

The OASIS LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee coordinates the work of and manages allocated resources to Technical Committees in the Member Section. The Steering Committee is constituted by a combination of TC representatives and elected "at-large" representatives. Each TC selects its own representative to serve on the Steering Committee and the entire membership of the LegalXML Member Section elects three at-large representatives to the Steering Committee annually.

Rolly L. Chambers (rolly.chambers@tprr.com) is a partner in the Charlotte, North Carolina law office of Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP and devotes his practice to construction litigation and commercial matters. He has focused primarily on construction law and construction contract matters for over 15 years. He has substantial experience representing public and private owners, contractors, and construction materials suppliers in trials, arbitrations, and mediations. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section and Construction Industry Forum) and the North Carolina Bar Association (Construction Law Section and Litigation Section). He is the American Bar Association's representative to OASIS. Since 1999, Mr. Chambers has been an active contributor to the OASIS LegalXML Member Section. Mr. Chambers received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a J.D. degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William & Mary, where he was an Executive Editor of the William & Mary Law Review.

Eric Dimick Eastman (erice@doxpop.com) graduated from Earlham College in 1996 with a BA in Computer Science. Eric has more than 10 years of experience in technical consulting in such industries as pharmaceuticals, nuclear power, retail and private aviation. Since 2005, Mr. Eastman has worked for Doxpop, LLC providing public and commercial access to court records in Indiana. He joined the OASIS Electronic Court Filing technical committee in October 2007 and Doxpop subsequently launched its first external test of an ECF-based eFiling System. As a service-provider to courts with divergent technical systems, Doxpop has a strong interest in the adoption of standards for both data and processes. Eric brings an implementer's eye to the work of the LegalXML Member Section, helping to ensure that the value derived from implementing standards far outweigh the costs.

James M. Harris (jharris@ncsc.dni.us) is a senior technology associate for the National Center for State Courts and is an active member of the ECF TC. He has over 25 years of experience in software development and IT operations for state courts. In addition to his consulting work with state courts across the U.S., he has extensive experience in software development for court case management systems, particularly in areas of architecture and infrastructure planning, functional design, and database design. Mr. Harris has also been heavily engaged in development of functional standards and information sharing initiatives for the justice community.

George Knecht (george@pcintellect.com), representative to the LegalXML Steering Committee and Webmaster of the Court Filing Legal XML Technology Committee, currently owns and operates a web design and web application development company, PC Intellect LLC. In addition to those responsibilities that come with running a business, George continues to provide the company direction in the technology it chooses to develop and implement, and is extremely interested in the use of XML in the justice space.

Previously, as the eFiling Program Manager for the Clerk of the Superior Court in Maricopa County (Phoenix, AZ), George acted as the lead business analyst and IT project manager for the Superior Court's many eFiling pilot project efforts. In George's eight (8) years at the Clerk's office he played an instrumental role in the clerk's conversion from a paper record to an electronic court record with the implementation of electronic document management and the development and implementation of eFiling systems. He continues to serve as a co-chair of the OASIS Technical Committee that has developed the Electronic Court Filing 3.1 specification for the use of XML to support electronic filing and electronic service of court documents. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a Master's in Public Administration and Criminal Justice.

Mark Ladd (mark.ladd@addison-one.com), Chair of the LegalXML Steering Committee, served as the Racine County (WI) Register of Deeds from January 1994 until December 2004. During his tenure as Register of Deeds, Ladd was President of the Wisconsin Register of Deeds Association (1999-2000) and served on the board of directors for the National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks (NACRC). He also served as the Public Sector Co-Chair for the Property Records Industry Association's (PRIA) Technology Committee.

On January 15th, 2003 Ladd rolled out Racine County's Electronic Recording System and recorded the first fully electronic real estate documents in the state of Wisconsin.

In July 2004 Ladd joined a software company dedicated to electronic recording systems and continued his work in the electronic recording arena, representing that company to both PRIA and the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) in their efforts to develop the data standards necessary to affect paperless, electronic real estate documents.

Today, Ladd heads Addison/One, LLC, a consulting firm focused on electronic real estate transactions. In this role, Ladd serves as PRIA's Technology Committee Coordinator, placing him at the center of the electronic document recording universe.

Ladd's background as a Register of Deeds, his involvement in the national standard setting process and experience in the private sector provides comprehensive insight into the emerging electronic recording arena.